Climate activists are about to launch two weeks of protest against a pipeline from Alberta's tar sands to the Gulf Coast. They'd do well to remember there are not just companies but people and communities on the other side of the argument.

Some of the world's most prominent climate activists are protesting a proposed pipeline that would bring Alberta's unconventional oil to the Gulf Coast. Is this the make-or-break point for global action on climate change?

Just before D.C. went crazy over the debt ceiling, 25 members of Congress tabled a bill that would revive a remarkably effective solar energy financing program. Does Congress have enough sense left to pass HR 2599?